MEDITATING – EVEN LAWYERS DO IT
By Glenn Kadish
2010-08-23
This is going to sound like a punch line to a joke. We’re sitting in large room at Seattle Center listening to a seminar given by Jack Kornfield/1 and a professor who studied the effects of meditation on people. We’re listening about how great meditation is and how it helps everyone, when Jack Kornfield says, "There are even mediation retreats for lawyers". That line got the biggest laugh of the day. Most of the 500 people there were mental health professionals who could get continuing education credits.
As a lawyer who had been meditating for a little while, hearing about lawyers and
meditation made me sit up and listen. (I laughed as well.) When I got home, I found
that there really was a meditation retreat for lawyers. Of course, it was being given in
Marin County. Well, I went to it. Imagine 100 lawyers and law students at a silent
retreat in a former convent in Santa Rosa, California. The first day, I was walking
after mediating, and thought, “”Boy, it would have been a lot more pleasant to go to
Hawaii and lay on a beach”. But it wasn't. The retreat was great and the practice of
meditating has helped me to become a better person and lawyer.
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